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Methodology for Vodka Reviews
I believe that tasting and reviewing Vodka must be approached quite differently than tasting and reviewing whisky or rum. Whereas whisky and rum are generally approached at room temperature and perhaps with a little water to open them up; Vodka is generally chilled, and one would rarely add water or ice when drinking Vodka neat. Vodka is also a drink which is never consumed in a vacuum. A traditional Vodka tasting would normally include food and good company. The style of food is in the vein of fresh bread or buns, potato dishes, sausage or ham, and pickled foods. The style of company of course is completely up to the individuals involved.
My Vodka tastings will begin with a chilled vodka sample in a shot style glass. Although some prefer Vodka to be chilled in the freezer overnight before tasting I prefer the temperature to be just above zero degrees Celsius. If vodka is too cold, it may numb the taste buds, and the light nuances of flavour in the Vodka may be lost. If it is too warm… well that just isn't how Vodka is normally drank. (Flavoured vodkas may be drank warmer yet, perhaps chilled in the refrigerator for several hours before the tasting. )
My sampling sessions will begin first with a small sip allowing the Vodka to rest upon the palate before it is swallowed. Then a larger portion is taken into the mouth and swallowed without allowing it to rest on the palate (Shot style). In the first instance I try to discern the main constituents of aroma and flavour and whether there is any aftertaste associated with the drink. In the second case, I am discerning the amount of warmth the vodka imparts onto the back of the palate and whether there is any aftertaste or burn in the throat. After each swallow I take note of the elements I enjoy, and those that I do not. The texture of the Vodka, the light taste sensations which I notice, any aftertaste and/or any burn are all important.
Then I sample the Vodka in conjunction with foods, fresh bread or buns, potatoes, sausage or ham. I like a variety of foods which complement, but do not overwhelm the experience. I always invite a few guests to enjoy the experience with me and in particular I try to have guests who are familiar with the rituals of this spirit.
I will revisit the Vodka on my own in my private tasting room for more tastings just to make sure my review is accurate and consistent.
Because Vodka is such an important ingredient in cocktails I also place a significant weight in my review in the performance of the Vodka in cocktails, and for each review I will construct at least one cocktail and assess the performance of the spirit in that form.
Of course, I weigh the various factors based upon the level of importance which I place upon each step in the process. As a starting point for vodka reviews I will follow a template that looks like this.
The First Impression (10 pts)
- This is essentially a score for presentation and packaging. In my opinion the presentation for Vodka is much more important than it is for other spirits, because the nuances of flavour are much lighter and more difficult to discern for the average consumer.
The First Sip (20 pts)
- That initial sip when the Vodka first coats the tongue and fleeting flavours are recognized. The aroma of the spirit may be recognized here as well the texture and the mouth feel of the spirit. As the Vodka is swallowed particular attention will be paid to the aftertaste and whether any burn is creeping in.
Taking a Shot (20 pts)
- This isn't so much about flavour as it is about smoothness and warmth. The palate should be left clean with no aftertaste, and the throat may be warmed but no discomfort should ever be apparent. The palate and the throat should be coated with a creamy sort of goodness, rather than a thin alcohol burn.
Out for Dinner (20 pts)
- How does this taste with food? Is the overall experience more enjoyable with the Vodka or does it add little to the occasion. This is highly subjective and more guests with more opinions is much preferred.
Cocktails (30 pts)
- My go to cocktail for this section will be the Cosmopolitan (of course for flavoured Vodkas I will make decisions based upon the particular flavours involved). When I make my Cosmos I use fresh squeezed Lime and the best quality natural cranberry juice I can find with no additives or preservatives. I want the flavours of the juices to shine through the cocktail without any bitterness creeping in from the Vodka. I want no unpleasant aftertaste, and if the Vodka does impart a little flavour it must be in harmony with the cocktail.
The Final Score shall be out of 100 and you may (loosely) interpret the scores as follows.
0-25 A spirit with a rating this low would actually kill you.
26-49 Depending upon your fortitude you might actually survive this.
50 -59 You are safe to drink this…but you shouldn't.
60-69 Substandard swill which you may offer to people you do not want to see again.
70-74 Now we have a fair mixing Vodka. Accept this but make sure it is mixed into a cocktail.
75-79 You may begin to serve this to friends, again for cocktails only.
80-84 We begin to enjoy this Vodka in shots, although cocktails are still preferable.
85-89 Excellent! Shots or cocktails!
90-94 You may want to hoard this for yourself.
95-97.5 The Cream of the Crop
98+ I haven't met this bottle yet…but I want to.
Very loosely we may put my scores into terms that you may be familiar with on a Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal scale as follows:
70 – 80 Bronze Medal (Recommended only as a mixer)
81 – 89 Silver Medal (Recommended for shots and mixing cocktails)
90 – 95 Gold Medal (Highly Recommended for Vodka Shots and Sublime Cocktails)
95.5+ Platinum Award (Highest Recommendation)


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So I will admit, I wanted to skip last week's discussion on viewpoints and go straight to this. Because even though it makes sense to cover viewpoints before going deeper into modes of narration (although ooh err you'll probably notice I'm not covering every mode eg time, place etc 😉 ) this is by far a more interesting topic to me. Now I'm gonna be honest straight off the bat, I have a passionate dislike for stream of consciousness books, but I can't deny that it's an interesting phenomenon, which is why I'm excited to discuss it!
Stream of consciousness defined
There are lots of ways to tell a story and the how can be one of the most interesting ways to enhance the voice (including unreliable narration). Stream of consciousness is a technique developed in the 20th century to show the flow of thoughts going on in a character's mind. The term was coined by William James and is also known as "interior monologue". It's kinda the opposite of a dramatic monologue/soliloquy where the speaker addresses an audience (think Shakespeare). Ways you can identify stream of consciousness are by leaps in thought or lack of punctuation. Some of the most famous examples are Woolf, Joyce, Faulkner and Garcia Marquez.
Stream of consciousness philosophy
The aim of stream of consciousness is largely to show the flow of thoughts and feelings, reflecting the actual impression of being inside someone's mind. Unlike where an author simply tells the reader what a character is thinking, stream of consciousness reflects the inner workings of a character's thoughts in a way that authentically represents the fragmentary reality of thinking eg by jumping from one event to another and not necessarily following on in a logical manner.
Pros and Cons of Stream of Consciousness
Pros: Well, this certainly creates interesting and realistic psychological portraits of a character. And if you can get into it, it's an intense experience. Especially as it can be used to really demonstrate individuality by making subtle changes from one character to another and showing the idiosyncrasies of one person's thoughts close up.
Cons: However, it's easy to get lost in a stream of consciousness narrative and, in my experience, is very hard to follow. As most people's minds are a complete mess, you can imagine that being in someone's head for an extended period of time can be quite the headache. It can also lack coherence and affect the structure, which, yeesh, like I said, not a fan.
Exposition defined
Now as per usual, I like to set these pieces up in a dichotomous relationship, showing two opposing styles. I did have to give this one some thought, as I didn't want to muddy the waters too much. But since I decided to talk about coherence and incoherence in this piece, I thought I might go with another mode of storytelling: exposition (the other four being: dialogue, thoughts, action and description). Edit: the basic definition is that it's the author giving information to the reader (and can include authorial intrusion, info-dumping or just be integrated into the text).
Exposition philosophy
As a form of contrast, exposition above all offers clarity. And while there isn't a philosophy per se, exposition has been used since the dawn of time, or literature, to present information. I personally notice it in more Victorian novels and in ancient epics, where the reader is simply given information. Sometimes this can also be used as a flashback or flash-forward.
Exposition Pros and Cons
Pros: not only does this offer clarity, but it can also be a powerful and directive voice in a narrative. It can be used to show a great deal of control or to foreshadow later events.
Cons: oh boy, I don't want to get into the show vs tell debate too much at this stage, but that's certainly a factor to consider (not to spoil potential future posts too much, but I think there's a time for both 😉 ) And one of the main issues here is that it stops readers from drawing their own conclusions.
Accounting for different tastes
What's important to note is that neither of these techniques have to be employed for a whole book. It's possible, for instance, to include some stream of consciousness without going the whole nine yards. And while I begrudgingly admit there's a plus side to stream of consciousness novels, no matter how much I personally dislike them, I am happy to say that I like both of these styles in moderation. But if you'd like a whole book of either technique (though exposition tends to be paired with other styles) then whatever floats your boat is fine!
Other posts in this series:
Pared down vs Purple prose – Differences in Style #1
The art of Intertextuality vs Innovation – Differences in Style #2
*ALL the Viewpoints – Differences in Style #3
So do you like/dislike either of these styles? Or do you have a preference? Let me know in the comments!

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Letters: September/October 2012
In Memoriam: Carol Markell
We are very sad to announce the sudden passing of our colleague, Carol Markell. Carol died unexpectedly but in the company of her closest friends. As Home Energy's Advertising and Marketing Manager for over a decade, Carol developed relationships with scores of Home Performance industry professionals and advertisers, networking at conferences and in countless phone calls. In so doing, she helped grow the home performance community as well as the success of Home Energy magazine. The outside world cannot appreciate how much she contributed to the close-knit Home Energy family, sharing in all our own personal joys and sorrows. Carol held much of the magazine's history within her very fine mind, and her good counsel will be irreplaceable. We have no doubt that she will be missed out in the community as much as she will be missed here at Home Energy.
Following are some tributes from friends and colleagues; read more at homeenergy.org/list/blog.
"Carol was born in New Jersey, graduated from Syracuse University and worked in New York. She moved exuberantly to California, where she established a vibrant life, a large network of friends and a variety of fulfilling activities, including running and rollerblading. She completed a masters degree in Sports Psychology at John F. Kennedy University, doing an internship at the Berkeley Police Department in community involved policing.
"Carol loved animals (especially dogs), roses, her garden (with the metal gates she made herself), movies, books, good television, hiking, Pilates, cooking, biking, people, music, and travel. She embraced new ideas and was consistently able to turn adversity into challenges and opportunities."
—Julie Freestone, friend
"Carol was a wonderful collaborator on the launch of the Home Energy Pros community. From the very start, she was enthusiastic and made sure that everyone in the home performance world knew about our project. A team player and a good friend. She will be missed! My heart goes out to all her friends at Home Energy magazine."
—Diane Chojnowski, Home Energy Pros
"I was very sorry to learn of Carol's death. I've known her for ages and will miss her. We obviously talked a lot about Home Energy magazine and how to grow the industry. But we also talked about hiking and dogs and she seemed to keep better track of my family than I did. She often talked about hiking with her friends, and I'm glad she was doing something she enjoyed. This is a loss to the industry, and my heart goes out to her friends and family."
—Mike Rogers, ABM Energy
"I remember a NASCSP Fall Conference in Charleston, South Carolina (2010 I think) when Carol brought me Meyer lemons all the way across the country from her backyard at home—what a delightful surprise and they were wonderful! I will never see another Meyer lemon, or Home Energy magazine, without thinking of her."
—Lisa Kesecker, Energy Design & Services
"So satisfying to have a friend who is confident in her knowing. I could always count on Carol to tell it like it is! Conferences won't be the same without dinner and a drink with Carol. We'll make a toast to her life!"
—A. Tamasin Sterner, Pure Energy Coach, LLC
Readers forum
Home Energy occasionally receives and publishes letters from readers that do not refer to previous articles but reflect a common concern of the home performance community. We invite readers to send letters expressing opinions and ideas for this section of the magazine.
Energy Efficiency Modeling: A Rebuttal
In the HE May/June '12 Readers Forum (p. 3), Matt Golden framed his concerns about energy modeling and disclosure. I'd like to take this opportunity to point out some misconceptions and incorrect assumptions made in that letter.
I agree with the assertion that energy disclosure is an important missing piece to the puzzle of home buying. Residential energy modeling is essential, not only to establish the appropriate real energy costs at the time of sale for a home, but also to remediate the high cost of the energy footprint of residential structures. Mr. Golden's statement, however, that "no study has demonstrated the relative value of different approaches" is simply false. The 2010 RICS report out of the Netherlands found that "homebuyers are willing to pay a premium for homes that have been labeled as more energy efficient" (1). The report is based on the sale of more than 30,000 homes with energy labels. The average premium was 2.8%, with a 12% premium for the most efficient homes. Important to note was that the 12% premium easily eclipsed the present-day value of utility bill savings (7.2%), meaning "homebuyers are willing to pay a premium for homes that have been labeled as more energy efficient." In addition, the relationship between market value and energy efficiency labeling can be demonstrated through "Value Beyond Cost Savings: How to Underwrite Sustainable Properties," done by the Green Building Finance Consortium, which has provided over 400 pages of detailed guidance for underwriters (2). A key takeaway from that report is: "To date, most sustainable property investment decisions have been based on simple-payback or simple return on investment analyses that factor in development costs and operating cost savings, but fail to properly consider revenue and risk implications."
In fact homes that have been green certified average a 5–9% higher resale value than homes that have not (3). Those outcomes required several years of data on thousands of homes before a clear analysis could be made. A similar amount of time will be required to analyze the relationship between energy efficiency labeling and market value.
The concern that asset ratings will produce erratic results because they are producing two different results is a misapprehension. If we use the auto industry as a comparison of energy efficiency ranking, it would be fair to say that the occupant of any particular vehicle will most certainly change the actual outcome in terms of miles per gallon efficiency. Prius drivers range from the clubs attempting to achieve the highest mpg ranking on their displays to the lead footed. This does not nullify the value to car buyers of the mpg ranking system. It still provides a fair and accurate baseline to measure their purchase against a car that has a different mpg rating. There is no reason why a similar standard cannot be employed for homes.
As for picking any two labeling methods based on good/fast/cheap requirements, there exists a demonstrated method that would make possible simple, accurate, and fast disclosure ratings using Michael Blasnik's SIMPLE algorithm. DOE's Home Energy Score (HES) is also striving to fill this gap. It is easy to agree that a $500 rating will make it difficult to move the market in a positive direction, but that price point is not the only one available. Embedding scoring into a home performance analysis allows for scoring to be performed at a marginal cost, which is basically just the cost of quality assurance (QA). Providing the score separately from a home performance analysis gives professionals the opportunity to apply their expertise to more homes than they would otherwise reach. These are real opportunities for contractors to use their skills to deliver more value to homeowners and move the market toward greater energy efficiency.
Energy Use Disclosure
Simply disclosing the previous years' utility bills has its own inconsistencies. You need accurate homeowner behavior to remove behavioral effect on bills, and accurate homeowner behavior is hard to come by. The suggestion to normalize energy use by square footage undermines Mr. Golden's assertion that Btu/ft2 is meaningless. Our research for the Energy Trust of Oregon led to the following simple suggestion: Portray a home's performance as its estimated annual energy use. That's what the Energy Performance Score (EPS) is—an estimate of total annual energy use at the home, plus the associated carbon emissions. Interestingly, this label allows homeowners to make direct comparisons to their utility bills; they can see whether their bills are higher or lower than the estimate had predicted for their home.
HES and EPS
Most importantly, I want to point out some glaring errors in the statements that Mr. Golden makes in reference to the EPS label. EPS is not reliant on Btu/ft2 but simply on total annual energy and the associated carbon emissions for the fuel mix of that particular home. To suggest that the EPS label based on Blasnik's SIMPLE uses "little or no performance testing" is simply false. Blower door tests are required in the audit process for EPS labeling, and Duct Blaster use is optional; both of these are obvious forms of performance testing. Also, both HES and EPS utilize the home's actual attributes to model energy use; they just focus on the attributes that have the greatest effect on use in order to provide both simplicity and ease. It is true that HES currently provides an application performing interface, and EPS will provide one within the coming months as well. If you're discussing adoption within the marketplace, then it is fair to assume that intellectual property (IP) should be protected as well. Suggesting that proprietary programming developed at individual and organizational expense should suddenly become open source is contrary to a market-driven approach.
Finally, when Mr. Golden suggests that EPS or HES cannot generate work scopes or savings predictions, he is absolutely mistaken, and it seems he is unfamiliar with the tools in their current states. Although EPS delivers an energy label, it also allows users to develop proposals that have specific scopes of work and allows for calibrating to utility bills. EPS Auditor software both generates scopes of work and relays potential energy savings to the homeowners and contractors. The information provided in EPS reports clearly aligns energy bills with the outcomes of the audit and analysis. It also provides information against state mandates related to residential energy efficiency for those individual programs, so consumers understand the impact of their choices on the larger market, and the utility can clearly map upgrades against goals. HES is working to deliver similar functionality through its HES-Pro integration.
It is my firm belief that providing energy labels to homeowners is the right thing for contractors to do. There is more value at stake for a homeowner making energy improvements than just lower utility bills or comfort. When the labeling task is blended with the contractor's typical work flow, the costs are low, but the benefits accruing to a homeowner could be high. The Netherlands study showed a premium of 5% above the utility savings for the most efficient homes. That's the equivalent of $10,000 in higher valuation for a $200,000 home!
To be effective, these home energy efficiency rating systems need to be credible—the software, the individuals, and most importantly the label's local sponsoring organization. BPI 2400 is a good start for calibration and National Renewable Energy Laboratory is working on a standard to compare modeling software to actual data. The industry already has a growing set of credentials for professionals, and homeowners tend to look to endorsements by local utilities or governments for a credibility check. The pieces are in place,
so let's keep working on what's important: delivering energy savings and delivering value to homeowners.
1. "On the Economics of EU Energy Labels in the Housing Market." Dirk Brounen, Erasmus University, The Netherlands; Nils Kok, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. RICS Research, June 2010. P.23.
2. Value Beyond Cost Savings: How to Underwrite Sustainable Properties: www.greenbuildingfc.com.
3. High Performance Green Building: What's it Worth? is available for download at http://cascadiagbc.org/resources/research.
David Heslam
EPS Program Manager
Earth Advantage Institute
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Blackhawks eliminate Wild in five games, advance to second round
The Chicago Blackhawks became the third team to punch their ticket for Round 2, defeating the Minnesota Wild by a score of 5-1 Thursday and winning the series 4-1. With the win, the Blackhawks became the first higher-seeded club to advance in 2013.
There wasn't much doubt they would, especially in Game 5. The Blackhawks were simply the superior team all night long, outshooting the Wild 33 to 20, and chasing Josh Harding from the net early in the second period after Marian Hossa's second of the night:
Hossa skated right through Spurgeon there.
That was the 18th shot Harding faced and it came 6:26 into the second. Again: the Wild had 20 shots all game, none of which were from Zach Parise, marking the first time in 244 games that Parise didn't register a shot on goal.
Safe to say if Parise's historically absent, the Wild aren't going to get much done.
But there's no reason for the Wild to point fingers or after this series. They were overmatched, just as most expected they'd be.
Still, the future looks bright in Minnesota. The Wild are ahead of schedule, with players like Charlie Coyle, Mikael Granlund, and Jonas Brodin (who was the league's best rookie this year, even if he didn't have a Calder nomination to support the argument) ready to give this team the depth they need to keep up with teams like the Blackhawks in the future.
Thinking on the future, this playoff series may have been short, but it was still a valuable experience for Minnesota.
"The culture has started to change and expectations are rising," Matt Cullen said after the game, "but we still have a ways to go."
The Blackhawks will either play the Sharks or the Red Wings in Round 2.


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March/April 2007 Editorial: Surprising Turnabout at Energy Star
Posted by Alan Meier on March 10, 2007
Here's a technology that should—and does—save energy when consumers know how, and remember, to use it. A programmable thermostat fails to deliver energy savings because the user has not been sufficiently taken into account. Indecipherable controls, baffling commands required for programming, and inadequate feedback deter even the most sophisticated consumers from effectively using the programmable thermostat. Pity the elderly who can't read the small print, the foreigners who can't understand the inscrutable terms, and all of us who never learned to program a VCR. Can one honestly expect these groups to operate a programmable thermostat effectively?
Happily, Energy Star isn't abandoning the programmable thermostat; instead, it's trying to adopt a new approach of endorsing a behavior rather than the specific technology. This is a radical change for a program that has been solidly based in technical solutions to energy savings and climate change. I support this idea because policymakers must eventually address behavior if they truly want to reduce energy use. These thermostats are a reasonable first target and a good place to prepare for bigger targets (such as cars).
At the same time, we need to rethink the programmable thermostat concept. If Energy Star decides in the future to recertify programmable thermostats, it could, for example, insist on a standard user interface (similar to what drivers expect in all cars regarding placement of the gas pedal, brake, and so on). And why does a consumer need to set the thermostat's clock when a chip can get the time from a radio signal broadcast throughout the country? (My wristwatch does this.) In short, Energy Star can insist that the technology be user-friendly.
Decertification could have repercussions far beyond Energy Star. What about all the utility programs, rebates, and tax credits that (at least implicitly) based their specifications on Energy Star's endorsement? Will these also be modified? Stay tuned.
Like the CFL, the programmable thermostat is a kind of standard-bearer for energy conservation. That's why Energy Star should be commended for acknowledging its error and trying to get it right.
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Time for a garden update! I've had a particularly good year in the garden this year. It's not been without failures, but overall, I'm pretty happy.
I really feel like the new bed layout has done wonders for our little crops. They've gotten more sun, the drip system has given them more consistent water and, as you can see by the GIANT tomatoes, they are loving it.
We've pulled the beets, garlic, and a few other crops, spread some finished compost and have room to start more crops. Rotation plans are in the works for next spring.
I even peeped over the neighbor's fence (the other neighbors). They moved in this spring, in the rental tri-plex unit next-door. And two of the households worked together to plant a huge garden in a tiny strip of dirt. I've been so impressed with their hard work!
Want to show off your homestead? Denver Botanic Gardens is still looking for entries for the upcoming 2012 Urban Homestead Tour on Saturday, September 22 from 10am to 4pm. Click here for an entry form.


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Today's Music: The Kings – This Beat Goes On/Switchin' to Glide
Note on Today's Music: Because really, nothing matters but the weekend. From any point of view.
What a week! Work, errands, chores, and to top it off, I chopped off a piece of my finger too.
So how does one distract oneself from the pain?
Why, by reading blogs of course! Here's some of what I saw.
Alex Autin showed me how my old commute wasn't near as bad as our collective commute. I Thought This Would Be Easier may finally have time to pee, and and Helene Troy had some strong feelings about fat.
Also, Edward Hotpur bestowed a Versatile Blogger Award on me! (How cool is that?)
Thanks to them, and all of you, for a great week of reads!
What else was read? Well ,last week, a bunch of you read the poll, where we ask what you do the day after Valentines Day. And from the answers, love means many things to many people. Here's what you said. (As always, my comments are ardent in italics.)
I hunt down a good bone 🙂 Wolf
(Say it with me, everyone: THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!)
If I had a Valentine like that I wouldn't need the talcum powder…. ~Miss R
(I like the talcum with the added rash powder. Ahhhh…)
Have a good long rest 🙂 Gray Dawster
(Takes a while to get over the embarrassments…)
Spend hours trying to find somewhere to put all my cards 🙂 lol Gray Dawster
(Don't lose them. Like I did my marbles…)
Need More Chocolates 🙂 Gray Dawster
(A box of chocolates hides a multitude of sins! (And the wrappers hide the bodies…))
Take down last years xmas decorations, and start putting up next year's. B_T
(If you leave the tree til easter, maybe it will be resurrected! (Too soon?))
Just keep drinking…~Amy @BettyRants
(Oh, I don't need a holiday for that!)
realize that my "subtle" hints to my husband for gifts would work better if I paid for commercial time on the Golf Channel ~whatimeant2say
(Only if you want a polo shirt. Or a putter…)
just to clarify, the last two were from me, ~whatimeant2say
(Yay, moment of clarity!)
and probably should be put together ~whatimeant2say
(like peanut butter and chocolate! And tequila…)
because they really make no sense if split apart ~whatimeant2say
(Trust me, things stopped making sense here a loooong time ago…)
ok. I'll stop now. ~whatimeant2say
(Wait! I had a good comeback on the way! Really! Hmph.)
started planning for Christmas because ya can't commercialize too early. Elyse 54.5
(I'm selling t-shirts with that exact same message!)
Mow down crowds at the drug store for 50% chocolates (Madame Weebles)
(Don't forget your rewards card – 2 for 1 points for each screaming kid!)
finally leave the house again, open Internet, open my eyes. NBI
(Cupid saw you while you were sleeping, He saw you while you were awa- Wait, no- wrong holiday.)
have gained a pound from all the candy (nicolemarie)
(Just a pound? Slacker!)
Allowed hubby to describe all the pics in the SI Swimsuit Edition to me. ~Maddie Cochere
(I'm not sure he's looking at the swimsuits…)
Sneak to the store to buy my own chocolates at 1/2 price! benzeknees
(Watch out for Madame Weebles! (She's the crazy one with the lawnmower.))
Make a paper-chain to count down until next Valentine's Day. (Undercover L)
(Make the chain from old Valentines Day cards!)
resolve to have at least one body to bury next V Day. butimbeautiful
(Wait til the Christmas sales. You'll find plenty. That deserve it.)
Show my man how much I love him in addition to every day of the year. Michelle
great day to buy next year's valentines day card…at half price (SnB)
(But what if the sentiments change by next year?)
Realize I have a gigantic food baby. At least it's not a real baby! – Lily In Canada
(Wait – real babies aren't food?!?)
(No, I didn't just say that…)
there was a Valentines Day? Damn I missed it again (JackieP)
(You were caught up in the Presidents Day excitement too!!!)
take my undergarments from my purse after the long walk of shame
(Is it more shameful if they're someone elses undergarments? Asking for a friend…)
Bodies? I ground the bones to make my pancakes. Trick Q? ~Red
(Can't wait to hear your syrup recipe!)
Laugh at the chick whose first date overran her second & went home alone. Red.
(Why didn't she hit on the ambulance driver?)
It isn't the bodies I mind cleaning up… it is the assorted fluids… PMAO
(Those chocolate fillings are a bitch to get out of leather boxers…)
I get to go out for my Valentine's Day dinner. (The Bumble Files)
(Leftover heart shaped desserts! Half off!)
Swept the remains of my broken heart from the floor. Twindaddy
("A Honey Boo Boo Valentine" has that effect on me too…)
Am oh so happy it's Friday. Over this week. Quirky
(That's how I feel every week…)
Rutabaga: put away the trapeze equipment before the family visits
(But wouldn't they all enjoy a ride in- Ohhhhhhhh…)
Change the sheets. You know because I rolled around in chocolate. KBar3
(Is that what the kids are calling it these days?)
What? It was Valentine's Day? Carrie Rubin
(But according to my Hallmark calendar, it's the most important day of the year!)
Congratulations to Michelle for this weeks winning answer,and keeping love and romance alive all year long! And from the offered choices, the most popular was "Make delicious recipes. With the bodies." Because y'all don't wast anything! (except the time spent here!)
This week,we're polling again on the topical events of the week. Because we're lazy. (And couldn't figure out a good "bloody appendage" poll.)
So butter your popcorn and fill your 70 oz soft drink! And cast your ballots in this weeks poll. But do it by 2359 on 28 Feb, because that's when this one ends. (If you leave a way for me to recognize you in your answer, I'll link back to you next week.)
That about wraps it up for this week. And in parting, enjoy these.
First, the theme song from a piece of cinema veritae that won NO awards.
I know, I can't believe it either!
And finally, since both Easter and Christmas were referenced above, what the hell, lets throw in some of the devil.
Have a great week y'all. See you on the bounceback…


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March 29th, 2012
How religion has been used to promote slavery
By John Blake, CNN
Editor's note: The CNN documentary 'Slavery's Last Stronghold' airs on CNN International TV March 29, 30, 31 and April 22. Check local listings for times.
(CNN) - Which revered religious figure - Moses, Jesus, or the Prophet Mohammad - spoke out boldly and unambiguously against slavery?
Answer: None of them.
One of these men owned slaves, another created laws to regulate - but not ban - slavery. The third's chief spokesman even ordered slaves to obey their masters, religious scholars say.
Most modern people of faith see slavery as a great evil. Though the three great Western religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – disagree on many matters, most of their contemporary followers condemn slavery.
Yet there was a time when Jews, Christians and Muslims routinely cited the words and deeds of their founders to justify human bondage, scholars say.
At times, religion was deployed more to promote the spread of slavery than to prevent it.
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"The lesson in all this is we need historical humility," says Daniel C. Peterson, author of "Muhammad, Prophet of God." "It's stunning for us to look back now and say, how can people face themselves in the mirror after doing what they did, but they did."
But what did the founders of the three great Western religions do? Did they have slaves and did they condemn the practice? Or were they, at least on this issue, squarely men of their times?
The answers to these questions are as murky and contradictory as history itself.
What's a slave?
Part of the problem is historical context. Most contemporary people think of slaves as people condemned to a lifetime of bondage, working on plantations and being whipped like oxen.
That kind of slavery did exist during the lives of Moses, Jesus and the Prophet Mohammad. Many slaves were prisoners of war; concubines, gladiators, laborers in salt mines. They could be killed, raped and discarded at any moment.
Yet there were layers of slavery in the ancient world. Many slaves would be seen today as indentured servants, or people trying to pay off debts; royal bodyguards and entrepreneurs, historians say.
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Sometimes the slaves became masters. In medieval Egypt, Muslim rulers trained and educated slaves to be their bodyguards. One group of slaves grew so powerful that they overthrew the rulers of Egypt and established their own dynasty, says Ali Asani, a professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Languages and Culture at Harvard University.
"Slavery meant different things in different cultures," Asani says. "There wasn't always this sense of powerlessness and oppression. In certain forms, it became an access to power."
In other forms, it became access to freedom, says John Dominic Crossan, one of world's leading scholars on the life and times of Jesus.
That was the case in the world of Jesus. The Roman Empire was the dominant power of Jesus' day, and it survived on the backs of millions of slaves. Yet there was only one mass slave revolt against Rome, which was led by Spartacus, a gladiatorial slave, Crossan says.
The reason there were so few massive slave rebellions against Rome was because some of its slaves had avenues for advancement, dim though they may seem to modern sensibilities.
Slaves could buy their freedom. They ran businesses for their masters or tutored their children. Greek slaves, in particular, were often valued because of their education and culture, he says.
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Roman slavery was cruel and capricious, but not all Romans saw slaves as subhuman.
"One of the most extraordinary aspects of Roman slavery," says Crossan, author of "The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus became Fiction about Jesus," was that the Romans ended up with a huge number of slaves who were smarter than their masters."
The uncomfortable historical record
It's been said that great religious figures transcend history. They rise above the peculiar customs of their day to show a new path forward.
It's a matter of debate if Moses, Jesus and the Prophet Mohammad did that with slavery. All three seemed to either ignore or tolerate some forms of slavery, some scholars say.
The parables of Jesus, for example, were full of references to slaves. Terms like "servants" or "stewards" are what we would call slaves today. Yet Jesus doesn't seem to make any moral judgments about slavery in his parables, Crossan says.
The subject may have been irrelevant to him or his audience, says Crossan, the Jesus scholar. Jesus didn't own any slaves. Neither did his disciples or the crowds Jesus addressed. They were all too poor and lived under desperate economic circumstances.
"It may well be that the people he talked to were small farmers who would not have the luxury of slaves," Crossan says. "He [Jesus] doesn't say anything for or against it."
Still, Crossan says that he believes that Jesus would have opposed slavery, given the nature of his teachings. Scholars aren't so certain about Jesus' most influential disciple, the Apostle Paul.
The man whose writings make up most of the New Testament had to deal with slavery. As Christianity spread through the Roman Empire, many slaves joined the church.
At various parts of the New Testament, Paul seems to accept slavery. He tells slaves to obey their masters. At other times, Paul seems to challenge the morality of slavery. In one New Testament letter, Paul intercedes on behalf of a runaway slave and chides the master for calling himself a Christian and holding a slave.
Crossan, along with some other biblical scholars, says there are actually two versions of Paul in the New Testament: the authentic, "radical" Paul who opposed slavery and a "Pseudo-Paul" inserted into the texts by early church leaders who were afraid of antagonizing Rome.
"It's one thing to say that Jesus is Lord," Crossan says. "Now if you're saying a Christian can't have slaves, then something must be wrong with slaves. So now you're attacking the Roman system, which is a slave economy."
Jesus' apparent silence on slavery and Paul's ambiguous statements on the issue had dreadful historical consequences. It helped ensure that slavery would survive well into the 19th century in the U.S., some scholars say.
American Christians who owned slaves had a simple but powerful defense in the run-up to the Civil War. The Old and New Testament sanctioned slavery and, since the Bible is infallible, slavery is part of God's order, says Mark Noll, author "The Civil War as a Theological Crisis."
"The defenders of slavery said Jesus condemned quite a few things that were standard in the Old Testament," Noll says. "He condemned polygamy, violence, easy divorce, but he never condemned slavery."
Let my people go, but keep the others
Neither did Moses, the founder of Judaism, say other scholars.
There's no record of Moses owning slaves, but the Mosaic laws permitted and regulated slavery, says Peterson, the author of "Muhammad, Prophet of God" and a religious scholar at Brigham Young University in Utah.
Still, under Mosaic law, a master was encouraged to free slaves and forgive debts after a certain period of time that was called the year of jubilee, Peterson says.
"They were not trying to create a permanent underclass of slaves that went from parents to child and child and grandchildren," Peterson says of the ancient Israelites.
But how could ancient Israelites sanction any form of slavery given their exodus from Egyptian captivity? Didn't their God explicitly condemn slavery when he ordered Moses to tell Pharaoh to "let my people go?"
The text is not clear on that question, says Brannon Wheeler, a religious scholar.
He says the Exodus stories suggest that the God of Israel was angry at Pharaoh not for enslaving a group of people, but for unjustly enslaving the "Chosen People" - the people God had promised to give their own homeland.
"In order to make that promise stick, He [God] has to get them out of Egypt," says Wheeler, director of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the United States Naval Academy in Maryland.
"It's not like He [God] says slavery is bad and I want to abolish it."
The Prophet Mohammad never explicitly condemned slavery, and actually owned slaves, some scholars say.
Yet he recognized the humanity of slaves, teaching followers that freeing slaves was an act of piety. He allowed slaves to buy their freedom and demanded that they should be treated with love and respect, says Asani, author of "Celebrating Muhammad: Images of the Prophet in Popular Muslim Poetry."
"He himself did own slaves but he treated them as family," Asani says. "One called Zayd he treated like an adopted son and one of his wives was a Coptic Christian slave."
The followers of men like the Prophet Mohammad, though, would take a harsher attitude toward slaves.
By the time of the crusades, Christians and Muslims were enslaving one another by the thousands. They cited their faith as justification, says Robert C. Davis, author of "Holy War and Human Bondage."
"Religion was the defining principle of slavery—this person is another faith and can be enslaved," Davis says.
Some church leaders preached that enslaving others was an act of evangelism, Davis says.
"One pope said that the justification for slavery was that it was important for spreading the faith," Davis says. "Once they were enslaved, they would more readily take to Christianity."
Those kinds of actions may now seem barbaric, but the texts and stories that were used to justify slavery still exist in the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Few, though, would quote those scriptures today, and many don't even know they exist.
"We shouldn't be surprised," says Jonathan Brockopp, a religion professor at Pennsylvania State University. "Religions redefine themselves and people draw on different stories and underplay other stories. This happens constantly."
It happened with slavery, and, who knows, perhaps it's happening again in our time. There may be a religious practice accepted today that future generations will look upon and ask the same question we ask about people who enslaved others in the name of God:
How could they?
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Last week, we wrote about the smaller iOS features that Apple yanked out of our grubby little hands when iOS 6 was released. These were not major dealbreakers for most users—let's be honest, most of us upgraded to iOS 6 even with the new Maps—but they were annoyances that didn't really sit well with a number of users. The removal of app gifting, the difficulty in deleting music for iTunes Match users, the lack of mixed podcast-music playlists, the absence of Google Street View, and more have made us into sad pandas.
At the end of the piece, we asked Ars readers to open the floodgates and tell us what else they missed in iOS 6. As it turns out, readers had a much easier time coming up with little features they hoped to see added to iOS with the 6.0 release, but these hopes were dashed. Still, we poured through five pages of comments to dig out the best nuggets suggested by our readers—most of them are not "pie in the sky" wishes, but rather practical requests that they'd like to see show up in a future release. The sooner the better, too.
Let us choose alternate Siri voices
Apple's virtual assistant Siri already uses different voices depending on which region you're in. If you're in Australia, for example, Siri has a different accent from the Siri of the UK, which is different from the Siri of the US, and so on. Siri also speaks different languages—we hear that if you're an iOS user in Germany, Siri's German personality is a little more "forward" than its personality in other regions. Additionally, certain versions of Siri are male, while others are female.
"I'd also like to be able to choose Siri's voice separately from setting the region," Jim Jam wrote. "The US voice is female, while the UK voice is (quite a grumpy sounding!) male. Weird."
But end users don't actually get to choose what Siri's voice sounds like unless they change their region settings. Remember back in the day when you could choose between various sing-song voices on your Mac to read back your text? It doesn't have to just be for fun, either—some people want a different voice for reading back Maps directions versus performing other commands.
OrangeCream pointed this out in our comments: "I use Siri a dozen times a day and would like a choice of voices, especially in the turn-by-turn mode! Also being able to have different voices assigned to different things would be nice."
Dear Maps: Give us an ETA
Maps in iOS 6 has some problems—no one would argue with that, including Apple CEO Tim Cook. But those who drive often and rely on turn-by-turn driving directions have so far been (mostly) satisfied with how Maps implemented this new feature. Siri wakes up your phone anytime the next step is about to occur and reads aloud the directions to you—the app also shows you a visual indicator to show where you should be going next.
Still, there are ways this could be improved. Apple's Maps app does include traffic data if you select it, but it doesn't explicitly take traffic data into account when giving you directions. Wouldn't it be nice if Siri could look at the current traffic data and actually tell you how long it might take for you to get from point A to point B in your journey?
Metaphysical worded it best: "Actually another thing not oft-mentioned in iOS 6 maps is there's no running ETA on the turn-by-turn nav screen. Drives me crazy not to know if traffic is going to make me 10 minutes late or 30 minutes late."
Bring back the RSS!
This isn't an iOS-only problem—it's one that has seeped over from OS X Mountain Lion, which was released to the public in July. Ars readers are just plain irritated that Apple has removed its RSS support from Safari and doesn't look to be adding it back anytime soon. Who knew there were so many geeks who relied on Safari's RSS support in order to read their feeds? (As many of you remember, I'm not the biggest fan of RSS myself, but I use NetNewsWire as my client and I'm happy with it.)
We've received plenty of reader mail over this issue for months already, but RHEL6 made sure to point it out in the iOS 6 feature comments as well. "One issue that pisses me off is the lack of RSS support in both iOS 6 and Mountain Lion's Safari. I don't understand why all of Apple's current updates seem to remove more useful features than they add," he wrote.
Forget shuffle mode. How about album shuffle mode?
This is another request that dates back to the beginning of iOS—and music playing software in general. Users don't always want to listen to cherry-picked songs on shuffle all the time; sometimes, we like listening to whole albums the way the artist intended. But that doesn't mean we don't like a bit of surprise in our lives.
The Music app could benefit from some way to queue up a list of albums and then shuffle only among those albums. Have the software play the songs from each album in order, but when the album is done, randomly choose a new album.
"Two words: album shuffling. Song shuffling is a non-starter for classical music. C'mon, Apple, this is not an earth-shattering concept," zogus wrote.
Trials, trials, trials
Yes, users still want app trials or demos from the App Store—especially for those that aren't free. Developers complain about the lack of this feature as well. Some have run into problems with piracy because there's no easy way for users to try their apps before buying, while others deal with the annoyance of creating two separate apps that seemingly do the same thing, but one is "free" with ads.
It comes as no surprise, then, that this came up once again in our iOS 6 story comments. "Built-in support for one-time app trials in the App Store (eg: three day trial, one week trial, whatever)—please! Ideally developers can just flip a switch to enable a free time-limited trial version. No extra coding of a trial-specific version required," westcoastmatt wrote.
As usual, there were a handful of other requests that our readers had for a future release of iOS. Some were less likely than others, and some—well, we feel comfortable saying they're just never gonna happen. Still, the ideas are worth hearing:
- Jim Jam would like to be able to delete Apple's built-in apps, such as Stocks or Compass. Wouldn't we all, Jim Jam, wouldn't we all.
- Booda and DavidinAla both pointed out the frustrating experience they've had with Apple's new Podcasts app. Indeed, the Ars staff has seen their own frustrations with this app, too (hey, at least you can delete it!). While Apple may continue to make improvements to this one, some users pointed out that you can delete the Podcasts app to force podcasts to return to the Music app. You still can't make mixed music-podcast playlists, though.
- neodorian wants Apple to open up iMessage to third-party developers. He finds it obnoxious when his friends mix-and-match SMS with iMessage, leaving him with e-mailed texts and confusing messages on his iPad. "I'd love to even be able to install a third party messaging app on my Android phone and iPad that handles GTalk as well as iMessage stuff the way it's [supposed] to be handled," he wrote.


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I think that pattern is a great one…and seville is too!
Hi Allison, I am a new follower, and enjoyed your post over at Stash! It was great for us newbies! Fast, and easy, very easy instructions to follow! My kind of tut..ha ha Love the pic of the baby in the pool! Christel Hutson
Enjoyed your tutorial at Stash Manicure today. I love that pattern, so quick and easy. Even though I'm an experienced quilter, I still like something I can finish in a short time. An especially useful pattern for using up one's stash.
I love your tutorial at Stash Manicure!Thanks!
Sew we quilt sent me over here, I'd be thrilled to win the Accuquilt! It gave me the push to become a follower; I've been reading your blog daily for months now and love your quilts. I even ordered one of your patterns to carry in my eBay store, and know I'll be adding more. Thanks for your post!
The picture of your little one in the pool is adorable!
Saw you featured o Sew We Quilt :) I am glad 'cause you're awesome!
Those are some seriously monster-sized zucchini. Do you have a good zucchini soup recipe? If not, let me know and I will pass one along.
LOVE how easily your orange quilt came togther. Thanks for sharing! Oh, and cute toes ;) Smiles~Beth
New follower here via Sew we Quilt.
Many thanks for a great tutorial and I love the round pillow tutorial you have too.
Thanks also for the smile. The cutie in the bath with the water gun is precious :)
Thank you for being a part of the Sew We Quilt features. I love the look of your blog and I look forward to getting to know you! Great tutorial and it makes those squares so easy!
Loved your tutioral and your blog. Thanks!
With summer coming to and end….I'm looking forward to some cooler weather but not snow!! I'm a new follower and will be visiting often. Enjoyed your tut at Sew We Quilt…..Thanks for sharing your great ideas!!
Howdy! I'm so glad Mme. Samm's blog led me to you! I'm an instant fan of your blog, and I can't wait for the Seville Tile quilt pattern to be available, because you did an outstanding job. Your mad skills are clearly evident in that one. It's beautiful :-)
i'm one of your new followers, come to look and sign up …. you do have lots of great tutes – i'll be back to browse!
i enjoyed your tute for mme samm; i had preconcieved idea of stack and whacks [as in one block wonders] and you've whacked it right out of me. so one can stack and make any kind of cuts and play switchy-switchy! good to know!
I enjoyed your post over on Stash Manicure. I think I need to make one of these quilts. Thanks.
Thanks for your stack 'n whack tutorial! So easy-a must make!!
I have been a follower for quite a while…
Thank You Allison for the wonderfully easy looking Tutorial you did for Sew we Quilt!! I think I can handle that one, especially since my Daughter informed me this Morning that I have a Grandbaby coming next April!! And I want to sew a Quilt for the New Addition!! I am following your super Fun Blog and I look forward to reading future post!!
Huggs, Nancy
Enjoyed your tutorial over at Madame Samm's..the squares should be fun to try. BTW, your Seville quilt is sooooooo pretty!!! TFS
Hi Allison, I have been a follower for some time now and want to thank you for the work you do and I love the stack and whack project and especially that it is in orange! Love this! This might be just the pattern to teach my 15 year old how to quilt! I need to hunt down your Seville quilt to have a look now!
So sorry, I have you on my sidebar on my blog and have been following you but am now following you on your blog!
Great easy stack and whack tutorial at Stach Manicure. This is still on my bucket list :P. Love the summer pics with the hammock and the baby in the pool and all those zuchinni!
The Seville quilt looks pretty spectacular.
Allison, thanks for another great tutorial. I've been a follower of your blog for the last year and I love your awesome quilt and project tutorials although I've never made a comment before today. I especially love your tutorial on the Hourglass Quilt. Keep up the good work!!!
I am now a follower via sewwequilt.com. I love all the beautiful color combinations you put together. I am looking forward to getting color inspiration for my 1st quilt. Also your tut on Madame Samm's blog was most helpful, especially for us 'k.i.s.s.'(keep it simple stupid) people. :-) I look forward to following your blog.
Hi Allison! I'm here from the Wantobe Quilter giveaway. Love your blog! Everything about it makes me Smile! I love finding a happy place to follow. Thanks for the tutorial. Oh, and you can send some zucchini my way! ~ Jo
Thanks for the tutorial at Sew We Quilt. I am a new follower and look forward to future posts!
I loved your tutorial for your stack n wack blocks. I love that idea. I would have never thought of it. (and I'm a follower)!
I've just been over at Sew We Quilt and had to come and tell you I love the orange stack & whack. Like you say, a great beginner quilt or a "use some of my stash" quilt. I also like the one you posted Aug 24th. I'd love to win the Accuquilt – 3 dies I'd love to have are the Quarter Square 4" finished Triangle, the Rag & Circle and Chisels. I'll be following your blog so keep up the good work.
Thanks for the opportunity.
P.S. Cute little one there!
love your tutorial at Sew we Quilt, I am a follwer.
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Hi Allison, Thanks for the post at Madame Samms's — you now have a new follower. I can't wait to see what you're up to next and will be looking forward to your updates. Awesome quilt you made! I didn't know those blocks were that darn easy to make! I need to try to make some of those!!!
Hi Alllison, that's my friend "Barb in Atlanta" that left the last comment. We're both sitting here at my laptop all excited about the Simple Stack n' Whack Blocks quilt you shared with us on Madame Samm's blog. Awesome! Simply awesome! You have shown us something that looks so hard and complicated, and you've shown us it's not really that difficult. Yippee-Yahoo!! I can't wait to try to maek my own. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you for the tutorial at Madam Samm's. You have a nice blog.
Lovely tutorial at Sew We Quilt! Thank you for posting it. I will have to try it!
I loved the tut at Madam Samm's. Congrats on the pattern!! Been a follower for awhile and enjoy your blog
Mary Beth
growing up in montana i remember my mother always grew zucchini the size of yours – HUGE! we ate lots of zucchini bread and chocolate zucchini cake, among other things. here in south carolina you just don't see much zucchini and when you do, it's tiny – perfect for frying up, sprinkling with garlic herb seasoning and parmesan…although I do miss the BIG stuff! :)


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Top Attractions in Indianapolis
Highlights of Indianapolis
Indianapolis' claims to fame revolve mostly around sports. The Indianapolis 500, Brickyard 400 and the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals allow the city to boast the two largest single-day sporting events in the world and the world's largest drag race. Add in the Indianapolis Colts, the NBA Pacers and the NCAA headquarters, and it's easy to understand why sports can overshadow everything else the city has to offer.If you take time to look around, though, you'll find that Indianapolis's pride extends well beyond the racecourse. Top-notch museums, a stellar downtown park and historic architecture are among the capital's many highlights.Click ahead to learn about some of our favorite attractions in Indianapolis.Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Association
Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Five levels of interactive exhibits qualify as a must-see for visitors of all ages; plan to spend at least half a day at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. The Take Me There: Egypt exhibit gives you a chance to visit an ancient Egyptian home and marketplace, and the world-class Dinosphere -- an eerily lifelike re-creation of the Cretaceous period -- always gets a thumbs-up. Equally fascinating: the world's largest glass sculpture (a 43-foot tower by Dale Chihuly) and a moving exhibit about heroic children, including Anne Frank. (317) 334-3322; childrensmuseum.org
White River State Park
This central Indy urban park combines green space with activities for the entire family. Stroll paved pathways along the river and expanses of shrub- and flower-lined lawns; rent a bike or surrey; and take pedal-boat rides on the historic Central Canal. Summer concerts are held on a lawn overlooking the White River.White River State Park also is home to some of the city's major attractions, including the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, the Indiana State Museum, the Indianapolis Zoo and White River Gardens, NCAA Hall of Champions, the Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial and Victory Field Baseball Park. (800) 665-9056; in.gov/whiteriverWhite River State Park
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Fans consider this 100-plus-year-old venue a mecca, but even people who don't know racing get wrapped up in the history and pageantry at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Three annual racing events stoke major adrenaline: the Indianapolis 500 in May, the Brickyard 400 in July and the Red Bull Indianapolis GP in August. But even when it's not race day, visitors come here for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame Museum as well as behind-the-scenes grounds tours. (800) 822-4639; indianapolismotorspeedway.comIndianapolis Motor Speedway
Conner Prairie
Plan a day trip to this premier interactive history park sprawling across 800 acres in Fishers (17 miles north of downtown). Costumed interpreters at Conner Prairie play historically accurate roles in areas including an 1836 town and one of Indiana's first farms. In one of the newest exhibits, visitors can also soar 350 feet above the prairie at the 1859 Balloon Voyage.Check the website for special events held throughout the year, especially Follow the North Star, a compelling re-enactment of the Underground Railroad. (800) 966-1836; connerprairie.org
The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
Most people don't come to Indy with Native American and Western art in mind, but this jewel in White River State Park is absolutely worth a visit. The collections at The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art include ancient and modern art.For a real deal, plan to visit in June when the Eiteljorg holds its annual Indian Market and Festival. A $13 ticket gets you admission to the museum and the fest, where dozens of Native American artists, storytellers, dancers and singers converge. (317) 636-9378; eiteljorg.orgThe Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art
Indiana State Museum
The family-friendly Indiana State Museum inspires a fresh appreciation for Indiana and its history. The first floor of exhibits focuses on Indiana's environmental and geographical history; the second floor highlights the history of Indiana's people. Take a whiff of spices used by pioneer women, learn about the railroads' impacts on the region and hear from a slave trying to navigate the underground railroad. (317) 232-1637; indianamuseum.orgIndiana State Museum
Indianapolis Zoo and White River Gardens
The Indianapolis Zoo, located in the city's White River State Park, is a must-see for both animal- and plant-lovers. Winding garden paths, flowers and lots of green space make it a pleasure to wander among the animal exhibits. Kids will love petting the dogfish shark in a shallow pool and an opportunity to help zookeepers wash elephants. A cheetah exhibit re-creates a savannah habitat. The 3.3-acre White River Gardens includes a sun garden, water garden and shade garden. (317) 630-2001; indianapoliszoo.com
NCAA Hall of Champions
Hands-on exhibits should intrigue both athletes and nonathletes at the NCAA Hall of Champions. Soaring ceilings, waving flags and red bricks provide a grand entrance that makes you feel like a superstar just walking in the door. Inside, first-floor exhibits feature information on major sports, but head upstairs for the real fun: shooting free throws, clocking your pitching speed and using a downhill-skiing simulator. (800) 735-6222; ncaahallofchampions.org
Indianapolis Colts and Lucas Oil Stadium
The storied Indianapolis Colts often sell out Lucas Oil Stadium. One-hour tours of the stadium are offered most weekdays and include visits to the playing field, locker room, press box and other areas. (317) 262-8600; lucasoilstadium.com
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
At the center of downtown's Monument Circle, the 284-foot Soldiers and Sailors Monument, built in 1902 of gray limestone, has become a symbol both of the city of Indianapolis and the state of Indiana. The monument houses a Civil War museum at its base; visitors can also walk 330 steps to a panoramic observation level or ride in the elevator for $1. (317) 232-7615; in.gov/iwm
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Northwest of downtown, view permanent European, Asian, contemporary and African collections on 152 sculpture-dotted acres at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Also on the grounds: The 22-room Lilly house provides a look at life on a country estate in the early 20th century. The Tobias Theater, nicknamed The Toby, opened in 2008 as a venue for films, speakers and other programs. (317) 923-1331; imamuseum.orgIndianapolis Museum of Art
100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park
This former quarry between the White River and the art museum has become a relaxing place to admire modern art. 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park features artworks in a setting that includes woodlands, meadows, wetlands and a lake. Guided tours are available summer weekends. (317) 932-1331; imamuseum.org/100acres
President Benjamin Harrison House
President Harrison was the second president from Indiana, the first being his grandfather, William Henry Harrison. Visitors to the President Benjamin Harrison House will quickly realize that the staff and volunteers here are eager to share their passion about the Harrison family, the home and Indiana's place in history. Unlike many other historic homes, this privately owned house gives visitors a lot of freedom. Nothing is roped off, allowing you to walk on the carpet, play the gramophone or peer at photos up close. (317) 631-1888; presidentbenjaminharrison.orgPresident Benjamin Harrison House
Indiana Experience
The Indiana Historical Society's impressive Indiana Experience shares state history through technology and costumed interpreters. Three You Are There galleries create vignettes where visitors interact with interpreters; you might repair a 1924 Tin Lizzie or shop with 1945 rations coupons. Other exhibits include a swank Cole Porter room, where a singer croons the works of native son Porter; and Destination Indiana, a group of touch screen stations where visitors explore Indiana's 92 counties through stories. (800) 447-1830; indianahistory.orgIndiana Experience


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In the last couple of weeks, some new plants have come to the Robert Irwin-designed palm garden, and a few others have been rearranged. For those of you unfamiliar with the project, a little background—prior to the opening of BCAM, LACMA commissioned Irwin to create an installation of palm trees that serve as a living art display and define the park areas of LACMA's campus. As part of this project, which will continue to be developed over the next few years, Irwin systematically curated a grouping of exotic and tropical palm species from across the globe. Here are a few photos of the new kids on the block.
Director of Special Installations John Bowsher told me the Johannesteijsmannia Altfrons palm used to be reserved for nobility. Its fronds were used as umbrellas.
This palm, Licuala Ramsayi, native to the northern region of Australia, is actually an old friend. It resided in this space when BCAM opened, went to the greenhouse for awhile, and is now back.
Not all palms can survive "the wind corner"—the open space between BCAM and LACMA West—but this variety of palm, Pritchardia Hildebrandii, should do well. The palms actually align with the sidewalk you see on the other side of the fence and with the two rows of Washingtonia Robusta.
The center fern in this image is our most rare. It is fifty to sixty years old and not easy to come by at this ripe age.
This variety, Kentya, is John's favorite palm. He likes the trunk and the gracefully arched leaves.
This Bismarckia Nobilis is my favorite palm. I love the silvery blue color. (John says this is why Irwin also likes this palm.)
Along with the palms, Irwin's other medium is Southern California's light, and the species of palms have been specially chosen to gather and reflect the interplay of light and shadow native to L.A. That interplay was really evident here as John and I returned to our offices.


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"Little Dan" Wong (who was 1.21 m in height) in the Barkerville Post Office; circa 1920. He walked to Barkerville in 1885 and died there in 1931.
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Rotator Cuff Injuries and Chiropractic Care
Regular Chiropractic Care and Injury Rehabilitation
Recovery from injury can't be rushed, but the rehabilitation process can be impeded or facilitated. In other words, sufficient time is required to allow for healing of damaged structures. Re-injury is possible if you attempt to return to full activity before healing is complete. In contrast, use of tested rehabilitative protocols help you prepare properly for return to full activity and may even help you to come back stronger.
Regular chiropractic care is an important component of injury rehabilitation. By helping ensure that your spinal column is well aligned, regular chiropractic care facilitates optimal functioning of all of your body's systems. Mechanical loads are balanced so your spine, hips, legs, and arms work effectively, aiding in the recovery process. Spinal nerve irritation is reduced and removed, helping your internal organ systems do their job properly. As a result, oxygen and nutrition are delivered where they're needed most. Regular chiropractic care supports your rehabilitation program and the healing process, helping you get back as quickly as possible to doing the things you want to do.
As we get older, rotator cuff injuries become more common, a result of the natural aging process. A similar mechanism operates in the discs separating the vertebras in your lower back. These cartilaginous structures lose water over time, becoming less flexible and more brittle as the decades roll by. In the case of the shoulder, the rotator cuff tendon is pulleyed to and fro as the arm swings forward and back and up and down. As the years pass, this constant motion may cause fraying in the rotator cuff tendon and inflammation in the muscles that comprise the rotator cuff. Eventually, partial or full thickness tears may develop in one or more of these musculotendinous units, causing pain and some loss of function. Importantly, conservative care may be all that's needed to reduce pain and restore needed motion.
The shoulder joint is beautifully designed and a marvel of engineering. Its construction makes possible a full 360-degree arc of motion in both the sagittal and frontal planes. In other words, you can swing your arm in a complete circle from front-to-back and to-the-side-and-up-and-around. In the third, horizontal, plane, 180 degrees of motion is available. The overall combination of movements in three-dimensional space makes the shoulder joint the most freely movable joint in your body. However, as with all freedoms we enjoy in this life, there is a price. The shoulder joint's great mobility is countered by its very limited stability.
The shoulder's lack of stability needn't concern us in our average day-to-day tasks. Protection to the joint is built-in by way of the rotator cuff muscles, which form a strong hood that envelops the intersection of the arm bone and shoulder blade. Falling on an outstretched arm may result in a dislocated shoulder, so we need to have some care in this regard.
If you're a young athlete and have suffered a rotator cuff tear, surgery may be an appropriate option.1 But for the vast majority of people, especially for those over age 40, most rotator cuff injuries are chronic rather than acute and can be treated with rest and rehabilitative exercise. Again, if you're a 60-year-old skier who has torn his or her rotator cuff in a downhill accident, surgery could be indicated. For the rest of us, rehabilitative exercise is the key.2,3
Four or five primary strength training exercises are involved in shoulder or rotator cuff rehabilitation. The three basic shoulder exercises are (1) seated overhead press, which trains all the shoulder girdle muscles simultaneously; (2) standing side [lateral] raise; and (3) seated or standing bent-over raise. The lateral raise specifically trains the middle deltoid muscle and the bent-over raise specifically trains the posterior deltoid muscle. Specific rotator cuff strength training exercises include internal rotation and external rotation on a flat bench using very light dumbbells. More painful injuries with greater loss of mobility may require (1) Codman pendulum exercises and (2) finger-walking (up a wall) to the front and to the side.
The goals of rotator cuff rehabilitation, as for any mechanical injury, include decreased inflammation, decreased pain, return to more full active range of motion, return to more full muscular strength, and restoration of function.
1 Plate JF, et al: Rotator cuff injuries in professional and recreational athletes. J Surg Orthop Adv 22(2):134-142, 2013
2 Escalmilla RF, et al: Optimal management of shoulder impingement syndrome. Open Access J Sports Med 5:13-24, 2014
3 McMahon PJ, et al: What Is the Prevalence of Senior-athlete Rotator Cuff Injuries and Are They Associated With Pain and Dysfunction? Clin Orthop Relat Res 2014 Mar 12. [Epub ahead of print]


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Memorial grows outside of Jessie Davis' house
LAKE TWP. Hours after the Summit County coroner confirmed that it was the
remains of Jessie Marie Davis that were recovered Saturday from the Cuyahoga
Valley National Park, a steady stream of traffic flowed by Davis' duplex at
8686 Essex St. NW, where the black-topped streets are barely wide enough for
cars to pass.
Traffic aside, Davis' suburban neighborhood was quiet Sunday, most of the
neighbors indoors. Inside her fenced-in patio in the back stood a toddler's
basketball hoop. Visible from her front yard, a water tower looms in the
distance. A patch of freshly turned soil near that tower was the focal point
of the Davis tragedy last Thursday. That fresh soil, investigators
determined later that night, was not a grave, but marijuana growth.
Many passers-by pointed and took photos of her porch, where a makeshift
memorial of flowers, teddy bears and cards was growing by the hour. For many
in the community, the discovery of Davis' body and the arrest of Bobby Cutts
marked the end of one chapter of a story that has consumed the area, and
much of the country, since June 15.
"My eyes have been glued to this since it started," said Lisa Zachocki, who
lives in Davis' neighborhood. "(My sister and I) have shed tears, and I
don't personally even know this woman."
Zachocki, 36, and her twin sister, Laura Rhodes, walked down the street from
Zachocki's house to leave flowers on Davis' porch.
It was a similar scene in the Hampton Hills Metro Park, part of the Cuyahoga
Valley National Park, that straddles the border of Akron and Cuyahoga Falls
in Summit County.
Park rangers stood guard along a dirt road that leads to trails near a sight
known as Top O' the World because of its high elevation. Rangers allowed
people to leave flowers under a large maple tree, but made certain they
stayed away from the area where Davis' body was discovered.
Doug Shepard, chief of rangers, called it typical Sunday traffic for the
park. But no one parked in the small lot to set off on a hike along one of
the park's trails.
One woman told rangers she came to pay her respects. A man stepped from his
truck carrying a bouquet of yellow flowers. When a television crew
approached, he asked them not to film. "No, don't do me. Don't do me."
Shepard said the FBI designated the area for those who wanted to leave
Outside Davis' duplex, Suzanne Obrycki, 52 of Greentown, and her son and
daughter parked at around 6 p.m. beside the driveway on Lee Street NW. They
got out and left flowers with the memorial.
"It's weird that it was right in our area, rather than somewhere else you
hear about in the news," Michael Obrycki, 15, said.
His mother agreed: "You see stuff like this all the time, but you don't
expect it to happen right here in little ol' North Canton. "The flowers are
going to die eventually, but hopefully the family will see the outpouring of
sympathy, just another indication that we care."
"Jessie" was written on a card propped against Davis' front door. One of the
bouquets was for "Chloe," the name Jessie had selected for her unborn child.
When the skies began to darken shortly after the Obryckies left, Zachocki
and Rhodes returned to move the items from the memorial closer to the front
door so they wouldn't get wet in the event of a storm.
Rhodes held her 9-month-old son and fought back tears while her sister
neatly arranged the bouquets and teddy bears along the back wall of Davis'
Zachocki has lived in the neighborhood for one year and doesn't recall ever
seeing Davis, although she says her son used to see Davis and her 2-year-old
son, Blake, playing in the front yard.
A married couple from Massillon, Nick Sowards and his pregnant wife Maritza,
arrived and began helping Zachocki rearrange the items.
Maritza Sowards looked at the memorial and reflected on the tragedy. "It's
really sad when people just can't cope with life and they go to these
extreme measures and take a life, especially of an unborn child. I just
don't understand ... It's mind boggling."
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If you've read Barry Gifford's novel Wild at Heart, or seen the film version directed by David Lynch, then you've met the characters Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune. Today, as part of our Cell Phone Stories project, Sailor and Lula visit LACMA. Gifford, who recently published Sailor and Lula: The Complete Novels, has set his characters loose here at the museum, where they've come upon Andy Warhol's Black and White Disaster. Read the story here.
You can see Black and White Disaster if you come to the museum; it's on view on the third floor of BCAM, along with a handful of other Warhols and works by Jeff Koons. Head up after you've taken in John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, which is nearing the end of its run.
If you're an L.A. County resident, you can see the Baldessari show, the permanent collection, and all the other galleries for free after 5 pm tonight. While you're here you can catch the Philippine-born vocalist Mon David performing for free as part of Jazz at LACMA. You can hear some samples of David's music at his website.
This weekend we have two more free concerts in addition to tonight's jazz: tomorrow, Oscar Hernandez and the LA/NY Connection will take the stage as part of our Latin Sounds series —ending next weekend!—and on Sunday pianist Maria Demina and violinist Mitchell Newman will perform works by Chopin and Respighi for the Sundays Live series.


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Conroy, Conroy & Durant, P.A. is a boutique real estate law firm, offering sophisticated legal services and advice to our real estate clients. The firm's three board certified real estate lawyers are seasoned advocates and have extensive knowledge of real estate transactions. As a result of our focus, the firm is able to quickly and effectively respond to the needs of our clients and issues which arise in real estate transactions and related matters.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Bank of America will pay $10.3 billion to the government mortgage agency Fannie Mae to settle claims resulting from mortgage-backed investments that soured during the housing crash.
Under the deal announced Monday, Bank of America will pay $3.6 billion in cash to Fannie Mae and buy back $6.75 billion in loans that the bank and its Countrywide Financial unit sold to the agency from Jan. 1, 2000 through Dec. 31, 2008. That includes about 30,000 loans.
Also Monday, a separate settlement was announced between federal regulators and ten major banks and mortgage companies, including Bank of America, over wrongful foreclosure practices. That $8.5 billion settlement covers up to 3.8 million people who were in foreclosure in 2009 and 2010. Of those, about 400,000 may be entitled to payments, advocates estimate.
For Bank of America, its own settlement with Fannie Mae over the mortgage investments represents a "a significant step" in resolving the bank's remaining mortgage problems while also streamlining the company and reducing future expenses, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said in a statement. Moynihan's predecessor, Ken Lewis, bought Countrywide, a troubled mortgage-lending giant, in July 2008 just as the financial crisis was taking hold.
The bank's acquisition of Countrywide was initially praised by lawmakers. Bank of America was seen as stepping in to eliminate a bad actor from the mortgage market. But instead of boosting Bank of America's mortgage business, the purchase has drawn a drumbeat of regulatory fines, lawsuits and losses.
Bank of America also agreed in September to pay $2.43 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit related to its takeover of Merrill Lynch, another of Lewis's acquisitions during the financial crisis. That lawsuit was filed on behalf of investors who bought or held Bank of America stock when the company announced its plans to buy Merrill Lynch in a $20 billion deal as the banking industry and federal regulators struggled to contain fallout from the financial crisis in the fall of 2008.
The North Carolina-based bank said it would pay for the Fannie Mae settlement in part from existing reserves. Bank of America also said it would record a $2.7 billion hit to its fourth quarter earnings for 2012.
Despite the cost of the settlement, Bank of America still expects its earnings for the period to be "modestly positive," aided by a tax credit and an improvement in the valuation of its debt. Analysts are currently forecasting that the bank will report earnings per share of 19 cents, according to estimates compiled by data provider FactSet. Bank of America is scheduled to report earnings Jan. 17.
Bank of America fell 8 cents to $12.01 Monday, after opening slightly higher. The stock more than doubled in 2012, making it the best performer in the 30-member Dow Jones industrial average. It's up 3.7 per cent this year.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which packaged loans into securities and sold them to investors, were effectively nationalized in 2008 when they nearly collapsed under the weight of their mortgage losses.
"Fannie Mae has diligently pursued repurchases on loans that did not meet our standards at the time of origination, and we are pleased to have reached an appropriate agreement to collect on these repurchase requests," Bradley Lerman, Fannie Mae executive vice-president and general counsel, said in a statement.
Bank of America also said that it is selling mortgage servicing rights on about 2 million residential mortgage loans. The loans have an aggregate unpaid principal balance of approximately $306 billion.
The transferring of the servicing rights is expected to take place throughout the year.


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